Chapter 303

"Wang Lei and his wife have both confessed to what they have done; now it is your turn."

Lord Fuli put down the branch he had picked up, took the butterfly knife the Fox King had been holding, and started playing with it in his hand, saying with a wicked, strange laugh:

"I'll give you three seconds to consider, otherwise, Lord Fuli will carve your 'Fox Joy' with decorative cuts!"

As Wang Ya's pet, the fennec fox should know far more about what happened in the period before Wang Ya's mutation than Wang Lei and his wife.

Through the narrative of Wang Ya's mother, Qiao Yu, one could actually already vaguely glimpse the truth.

It was highly likely that Wang Ya encountered the funerary objects or relics of ancient spirit people during her archaeological work, which prompted her mutation and turned her into the half-human, half-scorpion appearance she had today.

To make Wang Ya return to her former appearance, one needed to clarify the process of her mutation, or apply to the Security Bureau for expert technical support to have a chance of success.

"What is 'Fox Joy'?"

The fennec fox heard the strange words, was stunned, and asked Lord Fuli.

But Lord Fuli did not speak; he only raised his hand and pointed at the base of the fennec fox's tail.

The fennec fox did a sit-up in mid-air, looked at the position Lord Fuli was pointing to, was immediately terrified, and looked at Lord Fuli with a shocked face, saying:

"Carve decorative cuts to eat sashimi? Heaven-defying, are you the reincarnation of Hannibal? Are you even human?"

"I am a fox!"

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Lord Fuli and the Fox King looked at each other, and the two were speechless for a moment.

"If you agree to one request of mine, I will tell you everything that happened to Wang Ya..." Facing the threat of the gleaming butterfly knife, the Fox King said with a grievance-filled, submissive face.

"Speak," An Sheng said.

"I request to apply for logger protection; even if I really have to go to jail afterward, I refuse to let Wang Ya visit!"

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Hearing what the fennec fox said, An Sheng's little fox face showed a strange expression, but the matter between the fennec fox and Wang Ya might be another story, so An Sheng didn't say anything and agreed directly.

"Wang Ya was injured..."

"The day before she mutated, the bloody smell I smelled on her was from her left hand. Her expression was very panicked, as if she had encountered something very terrifying..."

The fennec fox was silent for a moment, as if hesitating whether to let Wang Ya go, but when it saw Lord Fuli standing upright, it sighed and said:

"There was something like a bug and a stone embedded in Wang Ya's left hand, fusing with her flesh and blood, as if it were burrowing into her body. When Wang Ya returned home, she hid in the dark room of her bedroom and used a knife to dig it out, wanting to pry it out of her palm."

"However, the effect was not great. It must have been more than half an hour, right? After Wang Ya's efforts were fruitless, she wanted to call the police or an ambulance, but she seemed to be possessed by a ghost; her body became uncontrollably stiff in the room, and that night, black skin began to grow on her body."

"In one week, she became like this. I used electronic equipment, a pet button sounder, and free online voice synthesis to lie to Wang Lei and his wife, making them believe in the Fox Immortal's curse."

The fennec fox spoke reluctantly, telling what it had seen in the bedroom at that time.

That day, Wang Ya was very panicked when she returned, and she was saying something to her classmates on the phone.

But that was three years ago; the fennec fox only vaguely remembered that it seemed to be mentioning ancient tomb anti-theft mechanisms.

As for what exactly happened, the fennec fox did not know.

But it knew that someone seemed to have gone missing that day.

Afterward, the school did not call the police because it was just the beginning of the summer vacation, and no one discovered that a student was missing from the school.

Seeing Wang Ya become like this, the fennec fox did not dare to continue investigating the matter, fearing that it would be unable to resist its curiosity and lose its own life as well.

"In other words, Wang Ya used her own knowledge to find an ancient tomb with her classmates in the suburbs of Chang'an just as the summer vacation began. Did they trigger the anti-theft mechanism in the ancient tomb, which is why she became like this?"

"Is the culprit behind Wang Ya's mutation the thing inside the poisonous scorpion's giant claw?" After pondering for a moment, An Sheng did not speak in human language, but communicated with the fennec fox through chirps.

The things the two foxes discussed already involved the ancient spirit people's research and practical application of spirit particles.

Because Wang Lei and his wife were present, An Sheng did not continue to communicate in human language.

"Maybe? I don't know," the fennec fox replied listlessly.

"By the way."

After scanning the fennec fox and Wang Ya, An Sheng suddenly thought of something and asked the fennec fox: "There is one question I have actually been quite curious about for a while."

"I have tried to communicate with Wang Ya, but the communication process was very difficult."

"How do you drive Wang Ya to do things? With my understanding of spirit beasts, there is no way your strength could have beaten her into submission like I did, right?"

After understanding Wang Ya's situation, An Sheng looked at the fennec fox and asked another question.

"Making friends," the fennec fox said listlessly, like a salted fish that had lost its dreams: "I indeed don't have very strong power, but I was born cute and can make friends with different creatures."

"Perhaps because my strength is not strong, I can perfectly integrate into the groups of various spirit beasts."

The fennec fox, a type specialized for human society, indeed did not have particularly tyrannical power, but it possessed a special power similar to Abai's 'wolf pack trait.'

However, the fennec fox was not particularly clear on how to describe its special power.

It generally called it 'making friends.'

Of course, it could also be called a 'four-legged succubus.'

"Oh? Making friends? Try it on me," An Sheng asked with some curiosity.

"It doesn't work at all. I just tried it. 'Brother Fuli~'—the moment I said it, you told me to call you Daddy. There is a deep generation gap between us; my 'making friends' is useless for you," the fennec fox said.

Mentioning the 'making friends trait,' obvious resentment overflowed on the fennec fox's cheeks.

I already called you brother.

You actually still made me call you Daddy.

I don't even know what kind of perverted fox you are.

The fennec fox had never seen anything as perverted as this, other than Wang Ya.

"Blame me? Is it my fault that I like people?" Hearing the fennec fox's complaint, An Sheng showed a look of disdain and let out a series of hums.

"Now, don't talk about this. Since I have already agreed to your conditions, and you also know about the existence of the loggers."

"Then, I hope you can help; let's work together to make Wang Ya return to human form."

An Sheng scanned the surroundings and said:

"If it were just ordinary bad spirit beasts or simply bad people, I wouldn't bother with so many things."

"But your whole family is bad, and the spirit beast is also bad; I don't think it's appropriate to just send you all to jail."

"You must spit out all your illegal gains, then establish a fund through legal channels, and personally take responsibility for cleaning up the mess you made—wipe every single butt clean—and contribute to the ecological development of our Qin Ling fox clan."

"Otherwise..."

"I'm afraid Lord Fuli will have to pick up a hoe and plant you all in the ground to be old fox farmers for once."

"Just say whether you want to become a fox carrot or go shovel shit!"

An Sheng looked at the fennec fox and said.

"The second basement level has medical equipment that can check for the foreign object in Wang Ya's body..." the fennec fox said.

Understanding the whole process, An Sheng thought for a moment and summarized the whole thing.

Good grief, throwing foreign foxes into the Qin Ling Mountains to occupy the ecological niche of the local foxes.

Send you to pedal a sewing machine?

You bastard, catch those foxes back first!

Isn't it the 'making friends' trait?

Just right—one or two looks at a fox, and you can distinguish the fox's household registration; you people are the most suitable for doing this. If you dare not to be volunteers, I'll make one phone call to call Wang Qiqi over to clear the place.

Like catching technicians, I'll stuff you into a van.

(End of chapter)